This week the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) released “Out Of Reach,” a side-by-side comparison of wages and rents…
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Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 5-3-2011
Tuesday Report, May 3, 2011 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service A new Harvard study shows that…
Audit Report Roundup–Weatherization Program, TCAP, NSP
The Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) audit committee meets next week, and their meeting packet is up…
Many of These Are Preventable Deaths
“Spalding County reports two fatalities. Officials say the severe storms tore a mobile home from its foundation and tossed it…
Texas NSP Program Audit
The Internal Auditing Division of the Texas Department of Community Affairs released a report last week on TDHCA’s Neighborhood Stabilization…
Increasing Minimum Entry Door Width in Manufactured Housing
TxLIHIS recently submitted Comments to the Manufactured Housing Consensus Committee (MHCC), a federal advisory committee to HUD on the regulation…
Dallas Housing Vouchers – Extreme Need and Error
Yesterday The Dallas Housing Authority opened its waiting list for its Housing Choice Voucher program for the first time in…
It’s NIMBY Time…Again
“We realize that not all residents of an affordable housing development will, by default, be criminals. However, we are also…
Weekend Budget Fun
The Texas House met over the weekend to consider HB 1, the budget. Thursday, we noted a couple of amendments…
House Budget Amendments Affect TDHCA Programs
It’s Budget Time! The House takes up HB 1, the FY 12-13 Budget tomorrow. All of the amendments are up…
NYT: Time Runs Out for St. Bernard Parish
This morning’s New York Times has an Op-Ed about HUD’s proposed action regarding housing discrimination by the government of St.…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 3-29-2011
Tuesday Report, March 29, 2011 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service As sales of new homes drop…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 3-22-2011
Tuesday Report, March 22, 2011 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service Shoddy lending practices of major banks…
Governor Announces New TDHCA, TSAHC Board Members
This month Gov. Rick Perry has made two new housing related appointments. He appointed J.Paul Oxer of Sugar Land to…
Manufactured homes, mobile homes, and trailers, oh my!
While many readers were tracking the exciting housing bills popping in the mad-end-of-bill-filing rush in the Texas Legislature last week,…
John Henneberger Testimony at Senate Finance on TDHCA Budget
TxLIHIS co-director John Henneberger testified last week at the Senate Finance Hearing on TDHCA’s budget and Disaster Recovery funding in…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 3-8-2011
Tuesday Report, March 8, 2011 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service The Obama Administration’s program to help…
Subsidized Housing In Texas Often Fails to Provide Outreach to the Persons with Disabilities
The Compliance Division of the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs cites Failure to provide an Affirmative Marketing Plan…
502 Rural Housing Program Proposed for Decimation
Today the National Rural Housing Coalition sent a letter (below) to Tom Vilsack, the Secretary of the US Department of…
Study of State’s Use of LIHTC Boost
This month the “Novogradac Journal of Tax Credits” included an article examining how different states utilize their ability to offer…
Observer Article on Disaster Recovery
“We had an expensive and painful learning process under Rita, and we didn’t apply those lessons to Ike and…
U. S. House FY11 Budget Bill Slashes and Burns Federal Housing Safety Net
This press release from the National Low Income Housing Coalition unfortunately shows the current budgetary carnage is not restricted to…
Two Reports from the HUD OIG on Texas Entities
HUD’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) released two audit reports on Texas entities last week. One report covered $503 million…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation 1-25-2011
Tuesday Report, January 25, 2011 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service Litigation bears down on sleazy mortgage…
Black-White Segregation in Small and Mid-sized Texas Cities
I realized that my last two posts on black/white segregation in Texas focused on data from the large urban centers…
LBB Proposal Released for TDHCA Budget
The Legislative Budget Board dropped their 2012-13 budget proposal this morning. TDHCA’s sections can be found here (h/t Texas Tribune). …
ACS Segregation Data II
In a natural followup to yesterday’s post, Remapping Debate this morning released a look at the segregation patterns revealed…
The state of Black-White Segregation in Texas
Last month the Brookings Institution released a set of segregation measures about the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the United…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation 1-11-2010
Tuesday Report, Jan. 11, 2011 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service The twisting and murky maneuvers in…
Introduction to an “Analysis of Impediments”
One of the conditions of the TxLIHIS – Texas Appleseed – State of Texas Fair Housing settlement on hurricane recovery…